Psoas Massage/Release for Lower Back Pain Relief

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• back
• for
• lower
• massage
• pain
• psoas
• release

[sprottman]

In the first part of this vid you're not actually palpating the psoas, you're palpating the iliacus.

[Kalidasab]

@sprottman The iliacus is between the asis and the femur, I'm in the abdominal cavity here.

[branislavc87]

I like the way you done in, I have seen some people do it while client is face down. My personal choice is face up I just do it a little different, I like to rotate the leg and off to the side of the table and if psoas releases you can feel it pop.

Thanks for the video.

[Kalidasab]

@branislavc87 Do you mean taking the leg down off to the side of the table? Good idea! There's a good stretch in there too if you help the leg back towards the head of the table.

[devaneym1]

assuming you are able to locate the psoas on your own and do the release what type of stretch should follow the release if any. I have tight psoas from doing a lot of sitting and i am a runner that has been experiencing si joint pain and hoprfully this will help

[Kalidasab]

@devaneym1 I would just work it like this on a fairly regular basis until you get some real release from it. Stretching will help, but it's just not as deep. Do you know some good stretches for it? Anything that feels good is probably good for it.

[JamalTheTitan]

can you find this muscle if you're fat?

[windstorminator]

@JamalTheTitan yes u can, it may be a little harder to get to it, but it shouldn't hurt, think of it in this way, fat is just like adding something onto your body, like say u cut off the fat, its just handing from the area the skin would have been normally

[Backhealer]

Thank you for the video. releasing psoas and illiacus is very important for proper lumbar function. It is also important to release the psoas off the 12th thoracic and 1st lumbar tranverse processes from the back. These releases create space for proper disc and facet functioning. I use the Backhealer ball to do this myself.

[jtlmbt]

Did you bother to release the abdominals or obliques first? That guy is in pain (his left hand is about to swat your hand away).

And sprottman is right - you were palpating the iliacus at first. That's what you felt when you had the guy flex his hip - the iliacus is the primary hip flexor.

[19grand]

@Sahri21 why not?

[BeeryDorin]

that does work!but havnt relesed all my pain ,probably becuase im not expert or something

[Sahri21]

I CANNOT believe this is on the internet. This should NOT be done by anyone that has not been trained and should not be done on yourself.

[tonyouwendyk]

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